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The poster defining Zionism
as "the liberation movement of the Jewish people" has been allowed into
the exhibit.

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Photo credit: Israeli Mission to the United Nations

United Nations representatives have partially
backed down from an attempt to censor posters on Zionism, Jerusalem, and
Israeli Arabs that are part of the content of an Israeli exhibition
that opened at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Monday, deciding to
allow the Zionism-themed poster to be shown as planned.

The Israeli U.N. delegation and the
StandWithUs advocacy organization conceived the exhibit and received
approval to move ahead with it, but when the project was unveiled, three
out of 13 parts of the exhibit -- displays about Zionism, Jerusalem,
and Israeli Arabs -- were rejected for display on the grounds that they
were "inappropriate."

According to The Jerusalem Post, the Jerusalem
poster shows pictures of holy sites and states that "the Jewish people
are indigenous to Israel and have maintained a continuous presence in
the land since 1,000 [BCE]. Jerusalem has been the center and focus of
Jewish life and religion for more than three millennia and is holy to
Christians and Muslims as well."

The display on Israeli Arabs explains that
they are "the largest minority in Israel, making up 20% of Israel's
population" and describes them as "equal citizens under the law."

The third display defines Zionism as "the
liberation movement of the Jewish people, who sought to overcome 1,900
years of oppression and regain self-determination in their indigenous
homeland."

Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon
reached out to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and asked that the
decision be reversed.

"By rejecting content about Zionism, the U.N.
is questioning the very existence of the State of Israel as the national
home of the Jewish people," Danon said. "The U.N. must reverses this
outrageous decision and apologize to the Jewish people."

The Israeli mission also pointed out that in
1991, the U.N. reversed a resolution equating Zionism with racism, which
had passed 16 years earlier, and that by censoring the current exhibit,
"the UN is de facto enacting this old resolution."

Danon welcomed the decision to display the
poster on Zionism as planned, but said the U.N. must allow the other
rejected elements of the exhibit to go up, as well.

StandWithUs Executive Director Shahar Azani welcomed the U.N.'s reversal of its censorship of the Zionism poster.

"The very fact that the U.N. reversed its decision is a
major victory, which proves how important it is to stand our ground on
issues that are important to us," Azani told The Jerusalem Post.